Echo Dot

He can’t afford to fold. He’s close to finished as it is, siding with trump would be the last straw.

He’s just listing the countries he can remember. It would be interesting to see China working alongside anyone.

The thing is there is no support for a war so leaders are very reluctant to be seen siding with the US. Even the right wing voters don’t want this.

This timeline is unrealistic and poorly thought out.

Meth

Not that they had to join the military in the first place of course. Even the Trump admin don’t force conscription.

I’d be totally fine with it if they all got raptured so we didn’t have to deal with them anymore.

Consent is for democracies, which is evil woke liberal nonsense.

Because they’re in the military. People with options don’t join the military no matter what military recruiters tell you.

Why would I join the military for terrible pay, and get shot at, when I could do literally any other job, for more money, I don’t get deployed to ill equipped war zones, I get to go home at the end of every day, and don’t get shot?

You have to be a certain type of person to join the military, and that sort of person is not one prone to introspection.

Oh no there would absolutely be responses, but not to the level of military retaliation as he was suggesting.

China would definitely use it as an excuse to build up their nuclear stockpile and the nuclear test ban treaty would be in tatters.

It would also result in a lot of civil unrest in the US which could spiral into a civil war. To be honest though I can’t really see the US surviving until the end of the century regardless, there’s just too much hate and division there and neither the republicans nor the democrats have ever attempted to fix major societal issues.

Yeah they’re just evil oppressive dictators but at least they don’t try and claim innocent. They own being dictators, they admit it.

Does Iran actually have the range to be a threat to the US? The last stats I saw had their maximum range and maybe enough to strike the Mediterranean and maybe a little inland in Italy and Spain. That’s a far cry from being able to hit the US mainland. Hell even South Africa is probably out of range and it’s not like they can deploy ships to close the gap.

I’m pretty sure the rest of the world wouldn’t need to do anything. Nato isn’t particularly pro-Iran either so they’d probably be very unhappy with the US, but not actually unhappy enough to do anything about it. Maybe some trade sanctions.

I highly doubt NATO would consider it a sensible response to nuke the US.

Also I can’t see Russia or China getting involved. Russia won’t because I suspect they don’t actually have any functional nukes, and China won’t because they don’t care about Iran enough to risk a war. Obviously Israel isn’t going to do anything. So that leaves maybe North Korea who probably don’t have the range even if he did decide they wanted to respond.

So I can’t see how this would spiral into anything more, unless the US decided to use an unprecedented number of nukes and just cause nuclear winter on purpose, but I don’t think even the Trump administration is that stupid.

I’m fascinated by the idea that world war 3 wouldn’t affect the development of AI. All any opposing force would need to do is bomb California and that would be the end of AI research.

Or die trying; you mean the effort of reading out a long string of letters in order to authorise the launch will overwhelm his tiny mind? I mean I guess it’s possible, I’m not sure he actually can read.

Unfortunately it isn’t a particularly great spec. It’s fine if you don’t care about those things but for people that want high-end smartphones the phone isn’t going to cut it.

I mean in a way I get it. It’s easier to just pay subscription services and to have to try and deal with the utterly terrible torrent sites which by the way are no better now than they were 20 years ago.

Lots of countries have their fascists and their dictators but the American right are just plain weird.

It is incredibly hard to believe that.

I had collected almost 20tb of content.

What were they all in 4K? 20 terabytes of video at 4K is around 7 days of non-stop content. But pretty much all pornography is not high quality stuff so we’re looking at more like 22 weeks of content. Also who has 20 terabytes worth of storage anyway?